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You used to be able to determine the order variables would be set with variables_order (can you still?). So if it was set to "EGPCS" (which I believe was the default), then ENV, GET, POST, COOKIE and SERVER get set in that order (which is the most logical, to make sure SERVER variables aren't overridden by GET or POST).